Friday, May 02, 2008

Alternative health care practitioners are telling people to focus on an alkaline diet as lower acid blood levels are indicators of sickness and are often associated with people who have cancers. This can be confusing for people who are new to this philosophy and they tend to avoid foods that have a low pH because they think ALL foods with a low pH are "acidic". When people talk about alkaline and acidic foods, they shouldn't interpret this directly with the food's pH reading. It has been determined by the minerals in that particular food are more of a reason why the food is considered alkaline or acidic.

Foods that have an "acidic" function contain more electro-negative elements such as chlorine (Cl-), phosphate, sulfur, etc. Food that have an "alkaline" function contain more electro-positive elements such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. The common method used to determine this is to burn the food at an extremely high temperature and measure the mineral content found in its ashes.For example, an orange itself is acidic, but because it contains high levels of calcium, potassium, etc, it is actually an "alkaline" foods. This is because calcium and potassium in oranges will help make your blood alkaline. PRO EM•1® Daily Probiotic Cleanse should be considered an alkaline food as it provides organic acids that are electro-positive and, therefore, raise blood pH to a slightly alkaline state.

Water ionizers are also very common today and people are spending thousands of dollars on them to drink highly alkaline water. Some theories on this are that the body's positive feedback systems will cause the body to secrete more acids to restore homeostasis. If the body is already acidic, this will not happen. The Standard American Diet (SAD), which is high in acidic foods and lacking in fermented and raw foods, is one of the main reasons people in the US tend to have lower blood pH. Therefore, drinking alkaline water would be beneficial if people are on this type of diet. Water is very important to the diet and proper body function. We suggest that people combine this alkaline water with a second stage treatment using our EM-X® Ceramics in the reservoirs. Our most common ceramics are the 35mm Pipe ceramic and the EM-X® Ringstone®.